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Asked: 2026-06-14T20:10:08+00:00

I want to know how to create or generate a map for jquery plugin

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I want to know how to create or generate a map for jquery plugin jvectormap http://jvectormap.com/

The project has several maps:
http://jvectormap.com/maps/

but I need I map with Australia and new Zeland divided by states. In the documentation in github https://github.com/bjornd/jvectormap, it says that anyone can generate a map with this command:

python \
    path/to/converter.py \
    path/to/geo-data.shp \
    path/to/resulting-map.js \
    --width 900 \
    --country_name_index 4 \
    --where "ISO = 'USA'" \
    --codes_file path/to/codes-en.tsv \
    --insets '[{"codes": ["US-AK"], "width": 200, "left": 10, "top": 370}, {"codes": ["US-HI"], "width": 100, "left": 220, "top": 400}]' \
    --minimal_area 4000000 \
    --buffer_distance -3000 \
    --simplify_tolerance 1000 \
    --longtitude0 10w \
    --name us

but I think is outdates, cause I downloaded http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/10m-admin-1-states-provinces/ as the documentation says, but of course didn’t work.

Can anyone tell me how to generate a map with australia and new zeland divided by states for jvectormap??

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just in case anyone will need the same.
    To run converter, you need (this instruction is valid for Windows environment):

    • download and install OSGeo4W (use Express Desktop Install)
    • download desired shape file (this natural data file works fine).
    • put anyjson to converter directory
    • create makemap.bat in converter directory, like this:


    python ^
       converter.py ^
       ../../ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces_shp.shp ^
       test-map.js ^
       --width 400 ^
       --where "ISO_3166_2 = 'RU-' and code_hasc!=''" ^
       --country_name_index 12 ^
       --country_code_index 18 ^
       --minimal_area 4000000 ^
       --buffer_distance -0.5 ^
       --simplify_tolerance 10000 ^
       --longitude0 54.8270 ^
       --name russia

    • run OSGeo4W shell (it will be added to start menu)
    • run makemap.bat
    • enjoy generated map

    As a sample output attaching this fiddle with russian map generated using steps mentioned above http://jsfiddle.net/dyP4c/3/

    About parameters (what I know)

    where condition is used to filter out shapes from shapefile using shapefile attributes

    simplify_tolerance will affect map quality and size

    country_name_index index of REGION NAME attribute in shapefile or column in tab separated file if codes_file is used

    country_code_index index of REGION CODE attribute in shapefile or column in tab separated file if codes_file is used

    codes_file is tab separated file (if you want to use names/codes not from shapefile)

    longitude0 is longitude of area (used this)

    name is map name

    P.S.: OSGeo4W package has nice Quantium GIS Browser to browse shapefile attributes. You can try to search other shapefiles on the web (not only natural data) to convert to jvectormap

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